Vibe Coding is BS w/ Charlie Meyer
Better Offline5 Marras 2025

Vibe Coding is BS w/ Charlie Meyer

Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed is joined in-studio by founder and writer Charlie Meyer to talk about the BS of vibe coding, why the valley went so crazy about scaling laws, and the realities of AI coding.

https://blog.charliemeyer.co/
https://csmeyer.substack.com/

Code Doesn’t Happen To You - https://csmeyer.substack.com/p/code-doesnt-happen-to-you
The Trillion Dollar Chart (scaling laws piece) - https://blog.charliemeyer.co/the-trillion-dollar-chart/
Replit’s Existential Problem - https://blog.charliemeyer.co/replits-existential-problem/

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